Thursday, September 30, 2010

Moving Forward...

Now that Birdies for Babies is over, I can only think about the future. It is such a fun thing to daydream about. I find myself eager to wake up every morning because more good news comes each day! We are anxious to hear the final figures from the outcome of Birdies for Babies any day now. We can not wait to hear the final number because we saw all the support it produced! It was amazing. The anticipation grows by the minute it feels like...Also, I feel when we hear the figure it will feel even more real.. It feels real now, but I know once we hear back from the Traders, I am going to feel like we have everything we need now! :)

Now that our donor is chosen from FCI's donor gallery, we are working with our third party coordinator at FCI very closely. She is basically our liason between us and the donor and the IVF process as a whole. She is walking us through the rest of the process. She is going over lab schedules, consent forms, and legalities we will have to work out with the donor. I have only spoke with the third pary coordiantor once to date, but from what it sounds like, I will be communicating alot more with her as we get closer to our BIG DAY! Speaking of our BIG DAY, we have tentative dates in mind of when we would like to "conceive" at the FCI lab in Chicago. We actually have not mentioned the specific dates to either of our families or friends. We are still staying quiet about it because it is the one secret we feel we have at this point. We can't wait to share that with our families, but we feel we are going to wait until after the wedding before we share! I constantly am looking at my planner at work and just staring at the month we will try for our first baby. I get butterflies in my stomach. Stay tuned to my blog to see which month we choose!

Our third party coordinator is currently working with our donor to do a final screening and working on consent forms with her. I will be updated when she gives her availability for the next year. It is exciting to be at this point because over the summer we had no insurance coverage and we had what felt like a TON of preliminary diagnostic testing to do....now the fun stuff is starting! I am anxious to receive any detail or piece of news from FCI on our next step....every piece of news makes my heart flutter.